NASA’s New Horizons successfully used stellar parallax from deep space to pinpoint its location, pioneering a new method of ...

In a statement, the space agency explained that on Jan. 1, 2019 the New Horizons spacecraft flew past an object in the Kuiper Belt, dubbed Arrokoth or 2014 MU69.

Enter New Horizons, billions of miles along its trek beyond the planets, now deep in the Kuiper Belt and headed toward interstellar space. Late last summer, from a distance 57 times farther from ...

By looking at the shifting of stars in photos from the New Horizons probe, astronomers have calculated its position in the ...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has successfully conducted the first-ever deep space stellar navigation test, while traversing the Kuiper Belt.

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has traveled so far from Earth that the relative position of the stars is beginning to shift — a fact that could help future spacecraft navigate the galaxy on their own.

Read more about New Horizons' mission after leaving Pluto and other recent research based on Lyman-alpha emissions. You can also find the scientific paper describing the SwRI map and its findings ...

The New Horizons spacecraft, launched in 2006, is now 60 times farther from the sun than Earth. Credit: ... according to a recent paper published in the Planetary Science Journal.

Since its launch in January 2006, the New Horizons spacecraft has traveled over 5 billion miles, ... Despite all his careful checking, when Lauer wrote the paper announcing the COB anomaly, ...

Just how dark is deep space? Astronomers may have finally answered this long-standing question by tapping into the capabilities and distant position of NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, by making ...

For NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, though, the relative position of the stars is beginning to shift because it has now traveled way beyond our planetary neighborhood on its way to interstellar space.